Big data and Big technologies


While reading the McKinsey Big data report (that’s a worth reading one,you can find the document right here), some questions popped in my mind regarding the concrete use of ‘big technology’ (and not only the produced data) in the consulting world really means.
For example, having attended the HP Discover 2014 Conference, there are some highly impacting technologies that will radically transform our economy (and that’s the kind of slogan you will read in every management business book). But the remaining question is ‘HOW’?

In the ‘Big technologies’, we should include what we call nowadays ‘disruptive’ technologies, being
  • cloud computing (but what's the real, concrete shift for Small and Medium Enterprises for example? Is the cloud really changing the way the SME’s will operate on their markets?);
  • big data might change tremendously marketing and client prospection, especially when public data sets will be made available (and we could imagine the setup of open, public database where every Internet users, being you and me, voluntarily transmit some public information (like we do on Pinterest or LinkedIn, for example). It will be your choice to be contacted for some service offerings or some client prospection. This will seriously impact the life-cycle of service provisioning, tendering and procurement in public administration, for example;
  • 3D printing, when broadly available on the market for mass consumption, will disrupt a lot of the medium range production business. Think on dentistry, car repairs and design businesses, everything that has to do with the creation of small pieces that need to be replaced in specific environments. This will be huge because as today everyone is an information producer, we will become in less than ten years object creators.

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